Word: suspect
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...positively identified only 28 hours after the cruelly mutilated bodies were discovered in a South Side Chicago apartment. Only 67 hours after the crime, Richard Benjamin Speck, 24, was detained as the prime suspect in the mass murder of eight young nurses on July 14. In the brief interlude between the slayings and the arrest, Speck played out a drama almost as incredible as the killings of which he is accused...
Twice at the height of a fevered hunt for the killer, Speck was in the grasp of Chicago police. Twice in that time the cops walked away without a glimmering that the troubled young man on their hands was the nation's most wanted suspect. And though on one occasion he even told a policeman that his name was Richard Speck, in the end it was not a law officer but a young, unarmed doctor who recognized Speck and had him arrested...
Beyond that, by a vote of 5 to 2, the court specifically upheld New York's controversial "stop and frisk" law, which empowers a policeman not only to "pat down" a suspect for concealed weapons in any public place, but also to seize "any other" illegal objects that he finds in the process...
Bullet for an Answer. The legislators who wrote New York's stop-and-frisk law in 1964 held that big-city police clearly need authority to stop and question anyone whom they "reasonably suspect" of committing or being about to commit a felony or serious misdemeanor. They justified the frisk on grounds of elemental safety. As the New York Court of Appeals put it in a key 1964 case (People v. Rivera): "The answer to the question propounded by the policeman may be a bullet...
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